Just because it uses a different mechanism to achieve federation you’re going to say that it doesn’t count as federation? That’s wild.

No. I’m going to say it doesn’t count as federation because it doesn’t achieve federation.

Actually, we need some new language to describe what Bluesky is. Federations are geopolitical alliances between equals. But Bluesky instances are centralised, with one relay acting as a truth source for many PDS servers. So to extend the analogy with a hierarchical geopolitical alliance… well that’s an empire. Bluesky is an empire. Bluesky is designed with an imperial mechanism. Bluesky is imperialised. That’s the new word for what Bluesky is.

So Bluesky doesn’t have any federated servers, and couldn’t federate with itself even if there were other servers.

It’s not fediverse.

Can two relays communicate with each other?

You can spin up your own Bluesky instance

…which is still managed by the Bluesky central server and can’t connect to peer instances without that server.

Any time the police train an AI to predict crimes, it becomes racist. It turns out, harassing black people is statistically an effective way to predict crime. Because centuries of harassment, profiling, oppression, slavery, and et cetera have created the socioeconomic conditions to produce crime.

Likewise, if your goal is purely to prevent conflict in an amoral way, you should indeed exclude all neurodivergent people. Autistic people could misunderstand social norms. ADHD people could fail to honour commitments. BPD people could cause drama. NPD people could demean others. Schizophrenic people could imagine threats.

You’re right, it’s mathematically effective to trust the neural network heuristic in your head to tell you which people are trouble. It’s also wrong. It’s discriminatory. You will legitimately solve problems by excluding people who are different, and you will also deny those people an opportunity to show they are more than meets the eye.

If you had a trump-like figure put in front of you for 5 minutes, how much would you be able to figure out in that 5 minutes? Quite a lot I’d say

I don’t need microexpressions to tell that Trump is a liar. Everything that comes out of his mouth is a lie. Billions of neurotypicals have seen him talk, and hate him. You’re not talking about a skill shared by billions of neurotypicals. You’re talking about a special autistic superpower to read people. I don’t think it’s magic, I think it’s profiling.

The idea that you can tell someone’s moral character from microexpressions is hippie woo-woo.

The idea that you can detect the presence of mental disorders from microexpressions is quite valid.

I assume that what you can do is physically possible. Therefore, it must be the latter.

Most of the “reading people” done by neurodivergent people (especially former abuse victims) is simply developing the ability to diagnose people with the same disordered traits as their abuser. For example, if your abuser suffered from anger issues, it’s quickly identifying when a stranger struggles with anger.

However, discriminating against people based on mental disorders is wrong.

You know when a dog was abused by a woman, and then it barks at all women? Yeah, it’s that. Just more specific.

That’s kind of tautological, isn’t it? “Unless you’re willing to make the world better, there’s nothing you can do that’s going to make the world better”

That’s because you neglected the conversational context. The prior comments were calling people with tacticool clothes right wing weirdos. I was using language that implied a contrast.

Yes. Decentralization has many benefits.

Isn’t most of his wealth in stocks? If investors think Tesla is a bad stock (because no one will buy the cars), then Musk is poor.

Here is your solution.

It is milk with some oat in it. The milk part of the oat. That’s exactly what it is.

You mean people might think it’s breast milk with some oat in it.

Rather than legislating plant milk, I suggest we legislate breast milk so that it legally has to have the word breast on the packaging.

Well excuse me for thinking coloured hair is cool.

The wonderful world of real life fashion movements.

Techwear is beautiful. And I can’t help seeing something queer in the design language.

And what of the young people with green hair wearing a million pouches, a bulletproof vest, gothic combat boots, and a face-concealing gas mask tactical cybergoths?

Well, it’s a power of two multiplied by a power of ten.

There’s no excuse for using Xittter in 2025.